On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What's the right way to assign an IP alias to an ethernet interface
>> that you want to bring up and down manually, not on boot?
>>
>> I tried the old way of making an ifcfg-eth3:0 file and it does work
>> with the ifup, ifdown commands, but even though I specified onboot=no,
>> it activated at boot-up.
>
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.03.40/sysconfig.txt
>
> ONBOOT=yes|no (not valid for alias devices; use ONPARENT)
> ONPARENT=yes|no
> Whether to bring up the device when the parent device is brought
> up.
> Default: yes
>
That worked, thanks! I was trying to find it in the RedHat online
docs but it was mostly about NetworkManger.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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